Author: VRIES, BENJAMIN W. DE.
Title: Of mettle and metal. From Court Jews to world-wide industrialists.
Description: Amsterdam, NEHA, 2000, Or.cloth with dustjacket, 149 pp. ills. In good condition. * The author leads the reader from the humble activities of Jewish tradesmen in the war-plagued Holy Roman Empire of the 17th century, a time of persecutions and expulsions from one German country to another, to their ascent to the unofficial but important status of Court Jews, to the establishment of an independent banking- and trading house - and, finally, to the development of several world-wide business conglomerates.

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